Year 7
Students will cover all 4 key skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing. They will cover the following topics:
- Greetings and introductory phrases
- Family, pets, opinions, descriptions
- Sports and hobbies
- TV, cinema, music and media
- Food and drink
- Healthy living and body parts
- Culture including: Navidad, Pascua, San Fermín
Year 8
Students will cover all 4 key skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing. They will cover the following topics:
- School subjects, descriptions, facilities and uniform including using comparatives
- Jobs, future plans and pocket money
- House and home, including countries, the verb ‘ser’ and ‘estar’, prepositions and directions.
- Daily routine and household chores including frequency words and reflexive verb use
- Holidays including countries, accommodation and transport types, weather and making reservations
- Food and drink including the use of the past tense.
- Culture: Navidad, Día de los Reyes, Pascua, La Tomatina
Year 9
At the end of KS3, students can choose whether to continue to study Spanish into KS4 and gain a qualification. For those that do not continue to study Spanish we hope they continue with their education with a lifelong love of languages, a greater understanding of their own language(s) and an appreciation of other cultures. We also hope that they will have developed skills such as broadening their horizons and their cultural capital, being able to pick out key information in texts and be able to communicate simply in Spanish.
In the future, we hope to introduce the FCSE (Foundation Certificate of Secondary Education) which will enable all students to gain a qualification in Spanish, regardless of the GCSE uptake.
